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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:41
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No wonder those wings in your silhouette were at a stupid angle...

Cockpit!
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:43
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Looks thin. Cardboard cut-out?!

That's ridiculous!

Null and void Ken! Null and void I say!
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:46
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No wonder those wings in your silhouette were at a stupid angle...
Towed and unmanned mate - needs an awful lot of lateral stability...
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:46
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I made those things outta the backs of Kelloggs Cornflake packets as a kid. I think they still sell them made out of Styrofoam.
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:47
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Wrong tail, if you ask me
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:51
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Looks thin. Cardboard cut-out?!
It certainly looks like one...there are other pictures showing a wooden frame though. This was only a wind tunnel model though, not the real thing.

Towed and unmanned mate - needs an awful lot of lateral stability
Correct LM....other pictures show a variation with a swept wing.

So you know its purpose, so it should take a few mins to work out what its called!
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:51
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Furthermore I think it was designed to be used for air-to-air gunnery, not ground-to-air anti-aircraft gunnery.

Done some of this you know.........
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:54
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Wrong tail, if you ask me
I swear to God Reg I was gonna ask Ken about the tail. It looked like a dogs mouth with a Frisbee in it. You know what I mean? Two vertical planes at 90 degrees to each other...just like those Styrofoam models.
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:55
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SincoTC has just come online....he's going to get it......
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:57
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Profile...Heinkel He-100.....
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:58
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SincoTC has just come online....he's going to get it......
...after three pages of donkey-work
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 11:59
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...he's going to get it......
He wouldn't be called the Stig otherwise!

Then again he has a lot of page reading to get to this point. Could be a while!
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:00
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Profile...Heinkel He-100.
Not far off is it Graeme? When you did that picture last night/this morning I figured you were already on to it!

Do I really have to name the manufacturer....there's only a few that we haven't already ruled out!

Edit to say, don't worry, I was only winding you all up about the Stig
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:03
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Something from Allied Aviation?
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:04
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Close alphabetically! Try B
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:06
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Bowlus then.
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:07
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Wrong B!!!
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:09
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Bristol (US) "Skeet" 1942 target glider

I gave up and rang Hesham. You know him don't ya David?
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:11
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....bastard.....
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Old 17th Mar 2011, 12:11
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Let's start the post-mortem of the clues .

Ohmigod! http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/historic/64..._Glider_(Skeet)
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